A waitress in Charlotte was let go from her job after a video she took in the restaurant went viral
Anyone who’s worked in hospitality will have seen some unusual things on the job, but this woman’s experience really takes the cake.
From overly drunk guests to unruly families, being a server isn’t for the faint of heart.
And Tara Bjork witnessed something so surreal that she couldn’t not film the ordeal.
She says in the video: “OK, I’m not supposed to be making TikToks at work but this calls for it.
“I work in a nice restaurant in Charlotte and I need you guys to see what just came in the door.”
A man brought a rather unusual date to a nice restaurant in Charlotte. (TikTok/@t_bjork)
Tara proceeded to flip her phone camera round to show a guy sat at a table with a blow up doll as his date.
The video has since been viewed over 2.5 million times and, while it was all in good fun, Tara has been fired from her job at Restoration Hardware’s RH Rooftop Restaurant.
Speaking out in the wake of her firing, Tara told WNCT9 of the strange night: “I had three other tables at the time. Two of them were speaking to each other about it.
“One of my coworkers’ tables were giving her updates on what was happening. He was feeding her grapes at one point.”
While she’s since been fired, Tara isn’t too bothered.
“I knew one of two things going to happen,” she said. “Either the video was going to get no views and I would be fine, or it was going to blow up and I was going to have to deal with some consequences.”
The man who took the blow up doll on a date has since been named as Henry Herrera.
He went on the date as a forfeit for losing his fantasy football league and had a feeling his ordeal would eventually end up online.
Henry took photos of his ‘date’. (TikTok/@papichulo2613)
“I kind of assumed it was going to happen. As I was sitting down, I already saw like six phones recording me,” Henry recalled of his unusual night out.
“I knew sooner or later the video was going to be somewhere.”
He went on to tell WNCT9 that he plans on changing his fantasy football strategy next season in the hopes that he and the doll won’t be seen out in public again.
“It didn’t work out so well. We’ll switch it up this year,” Henry said.
